7 Most Epic Celeb Feuds of 2015

For celebrities, sub-tweeting and throwing shade on social media is a dangerous game. Fans will, without a doubt, see it and pick sides and the whole thing will quickly blow up into a huge scandal. Yet, that didn't stop some of our fave celebs from duking it out on social media.

7. Calvin Harris vs. Zayn Malik

When Zayn RT'd a tweet comparing Taylor Swift's views on streaming music to Miley Cyrus' views, it wasn't Taylor who fired back. Calvin took offense to the comparison, tweeting Zayn passionately in defense of his GF:

But Zayn wasn't having it, so he clapped back with too much sass to handle:

STATUS: After realizing he may have overreacted to Zayn's RT, Calvin swiftly apologized, insisting his response was directed at the sentiments in the tweet, not at Zayn personally, and he even wished the former One Direction member luck in his solo career. Zayn chose not to respond, but hopefully, there isn't any lingering bad blood between the two.

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6. Amandla Stenberg vs. Kylie Jenner

Kylie's known for changing her hair on the reg, but when she debuted corn rows on Instagram earlier this year, not everyone was a fan, including TheHunger Games star. Amandla called Kylie out for cultural appropriation, commenting on the pic: "When u appropriate black features and culture but fail to use ur position of power to help black Americans by directing attention towards ur wigs instead of police brutality or racism #whitegirlsdoitbetter."

Kylie responded: "Mad if I don't, Mad if I do...." And then, in a twist, brought her rumored ex Jaden Smith, who happened to go to prom with Amandla, into it the exchange, adding: "Go hang w Jaden or something." Whaaaa?

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STATUS: Amandla never responded to Kylie's Jaden jab, and neither has addressed their confrontation publicly since. Kylie was recently spotted catching up with Jaden, so hopefully, the three have put their differences behind them. But either way, this Twitter spat started an important discussion about cultural appropriation that outlasted the two stars' beef.

5. Zendaya vs. Giuliana Rancic

Zendaya stunned on the Oscars red carpet this year, rocking a gorge white gown and dreadlocks. But Giuliana Rancic from E!'s Fashion Police wasn't a fan and offended more than just Z with her comments: "The hair to me on her is making her a little more boho. Like I feel like she smells like patchouli oil. Or weed."

STATUS: Giuliana apologized to Zendaya for her ignorant comments on Twitter and later on-air as well. Zendaya graciously accepted her apology in yet another perfectly worded Instagram response. While others like Giuliana's co-hosts later jumped in with their own feelings on the spat, the beef (if you can call it that) between Z and Giuliana is over and the amazing way Z stood up for herself helped to teach everyone an important lesson about stereotypes and acceptance.

Naughty Boy fired back, taking jabs at Louis' singing voice and accusing him of using auto tune. Ouch. But things got really messy when Zayn got involved, blasting Louis for commenting on his life and shattering every Zouis fangirls' heart in the process.

@Louis_Tomlinson remember when you had a life and stopped making bitchy comments about mine ?

STATUS: Naughty Boy has extended multiple olive branches to Zayn in hopes that they could squash things and work together in the future, but it doesn't seem like Zayn is all that interested. Since their Twitter falling out, the two haven't been seen hanging out.

2. Taylor Swift vs. Nicki Minaj

After the MTV Music Video awards nominees were announced, Nicki took to Twitter to vent about her music video for "Anaconda" being overlooked for a Video of the Year nomination, writing: "If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year."

Mistaking Nicki's reference to "slim bodies" to be about her and her squad (who are admittedly, pretty thin and whose "Bad Blood" video was nominated), Tay fired back at Nicki, calling her out for "pitting women against each other".

So when they came face-to-face at the VMAs, which Miley hosted, things got heated. While accepting the award for best Hip Hop video, Nicki blasted Miley, saying, "And now, back to this b**ch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press." When Miley tried to brush off the awkward moment, claiming it was all good, Nicki fired back, "Miley, what's good?"

The heated exchange was caught live on TV, and some conspiracy theorists thought it was all staged while others were convinced the moment was 100% authentic. Either way, "______, what's good?" is going down in history as the best comeback ever.

STATUS: Unknown. With no one knowing for sure if the girls' VMAs confrontation was staged or not, we're still not sure what to make of the whole thing. Miley has yet to apologize publicly for slamming Nicki in the press, but hopefully, she took the TSwift route and resolved things with Nicki off of social media.

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